The Ed Sullivan Show Guest hosts: Wayne & Shuster; guest stars: Frankie Avalon, Birgit Nilsson, Peter Palmer, Earl Grant, Susan Barrett, Calamac, Norwegian Festival Dancers (Season 13, Episode 17)
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TV Episode | 60 min | Music, Talk-Show

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The Ed Sullivan Show

Guest hosts: Wayne & Shuster; guest stars: Frankie Avalon, Birgit Nilsson, Peter Palmer, Earl Grant, Susan Barrett, Calamac, Norwegian Festival Dancers (Season 13, Episode 17)

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TV Episode | 60 min | Music, Talk-Show

Comedy Team of Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster are guest hosts substituting for Ed Sullivan while Ed was recuperating from an ulcer. Wayne and Shuster perform a comedy sketch interview with Professor Vain Gartner, Arctic expert. Frankie ...See moreComedy Team of Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster are guest hosts substituting for Ed Sullivan while Ed was recuperating from an ulcer. Wayne and Shuster perform a comedy sketch interview with Professor Vain Gartner, Arctic expert. Frankie Avalon sings "Look What One Kiss Can Do" and "Why?". Peter Palmer (star of Broadway stage and the motion picture "Li'l Abner") sings "They Call the Wind Mariah" and "Shadrack, Meshack, Abednigo." Birgit Nilsson (Swedish opera star) sings "Visi D'Arte" (aria from "Tosca") and "When I Was 14" (Swedish folk song). Susan Barrett sings "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" and does impressions of Hermione Gingold, Patti Page, and Eartha Kitt. Earl Grant (singer and organist) performs "The Birth of the Blues" (with drummer, trumpeter and orchestra). Calamac (illusionist-magician) - does levitation trick. Later in show does "woman in box" trick and makes car disappear. Norwegian Festival Dancers perform "The Haling Dance." See less

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11 cast members

Name	Known for
Johnny Wayne Self - Guest host (as Wayne and Shuster) Self - Guest host (as Wayne and Shuster) See fewer	Behind the Candelabra (2013)
Frank Shuster Self - Guest host (as Wayne and Shuster) Self - Guest host (as Wayne and Shuster) See fewer	The Wayne & Shuster Superspecial (1976)
Frankie Avalon Self - Singer Self - Singer See fewer	Grease (1978)
Susan Barrett Self - Singer / Impressionist Self - Singer / Impressionist See fewer	The April Fools (1969)
Ray Bloch Self - orchestra conductor Self - orchestra conductor See fewer	Science Fiction Theatre (1955)
Calamac Self - Magician Self - Magician See fewer	The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Earl Grant Self - Singer and Organist Self - Singer and Organist See fewer	Black Mirror (2011)
Birgit Nilsson Self - Swedish opera singer Self - Swedish opera singer See fewer	Army of Thieves (2021)
The Norwegian Festival Dancers Themselves Themselves See fewer	The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
Peter Palmer Self - Singer Self - Singer See fewer	Li'l Abner (1959)
The Ray Bloch Orchestra Themselves Themselves See fewer	Ed Sullivan All-Star Comedy Special (1995)